April 2006 | Destinations
GXP offers free SOCET SET workshops
With many exciting software enhancements for SOCET SET® and SOCET GXP™ planned for release in 2006, we have kicked off the year with a series of informative workshops, designed to offer a wealth of information on geospatial analysis, image analysis, mapping and photogrammetry. BAE Systems has been developing and pioneering software solutions for the GIS community for more than 25 years. Our regional workshops provide a forum for demonstrating how GXP solutions can become a valuable asset in your daily operations. Workshops generally include specific product features and capabilities, methods for streamlining production, recommendations for improving usability, and access to product engineers and support specialists.
A host of honorable speakers participated in the Cartographic Production Workflow Workshop in New Delhi, India on February 2, 2006, including Maj Gen Gopal Rao, Surveyor General of India; Lt Gen Ranjit Singh, SM, Engineer-In-Chief and Senior Colonel Commandant, Corps of Engineers; Brig M V Bhat, Dy. Surveyor General, Survey of India; Dr. R Siva Kumar, Head, NRDMS & NSDI Division, Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India; and Prof M N Kulkarni, IIT Mumbai. Topics included photogrammetric trends and direction, data preparation and product generation.
Due to popular demand, the GXP Asia-Pacific team traveled to Singapore to host a similar workshop a few weeks later, on February 27. This workshop was more focused, highlighting BAE Systems’ software strengths using military specific scenarios. Participants represented Singapore military, government, and commercial organizations, and the workshop content was well received by all. The GXP team demonstrated various SOCET SET, SOCET GXP and SOCET for ArcGIS® workflows, and discussed topics including current and future directions of photogrammetry; image products and feature extraction workflows using SOCET SET and SOCET for ArcGIS; and image analysis, natural disaster and targeting scenarios.
The EMEA GXP staff and Jordan GXP Distributor, Dr. Jehad Hijazi, of International Computer Systems (ICS), hosted the workshop for 18 attendees from the UAE, Oman, Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Dubai, UAE was the venue for a third SOCET SET workshop, held March 25 – 26 at the Dhow Palace Hotel. The EMEA GXP staff and Jordan GXP Distributor, Dr. Jehad Hijazi, of International Computer Systems (ICS), hosted the workshop for 18 attendees from the UAE, Oman, Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. The workshop attracted attendees with a wide range of backgrounds, from experienced SOCET SET users in academia interested in different aspects of multi-sensor triangulation, to potential distributors with a general understanding of GIS, who wanted to learn more general information about the capabilities of the technology. Attendees had an opportunity to participate in hands-on exercises and typical processes, including SOCET SET workflows such as import, triangulation, DTM collection and editing, feature collection and orthomosaicking. In addition, SOCET for ArcGIS, the SOCET SET module that allows 3D information to be captured into 3D shapefiles as well as personal and enterprise geodatabases, garnered a great deal of interest.